Vetri Paralleli, An Exhibition in Venice.

Glass has many shapes. 
The exhibition Vetri Paralleli in Venice combines those of goblets, cups and vases with those of seabirds: Francesca Saccani's photos of the Venetian glasses at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen with Tróndur Patursson's glass sculptures.

The glasses arranged with symmetrical obsession in a small chamber at Rosenborg Castle date back to 1709, when Frederik IV, King of Denmark and Norway, received a gift of hundreds of pieces of glass from the Venetian Doge. To display them, Gottfried Fuchs, chief fire officer and architect, created this glass cabinet with silk lined walls, painted ceiling and shelves of decreasing size edged with elaborated decorations. Their golden glitter, the atmosphere of the chamber, its opulence and fragility were captured by Francesca Saccani, Italian photographer and illustrator. The black backing of her photos, made precious by scattered fragments of gold leaf, intensifies details and decorative techniques of these glasses, whose colours and  transparencies find a

different dimension in the powerful seabirds, cut in thick sheets of glass.

In 1987, Tróndur Patursson, well known Danish painter and sculptor, started working with glass discovering its expressive potential. His stained glass birds are inspired by nature, a fundamental element in his art, a deep relationship forged in the long sea voyages and in the daily life in his native Faroe Islands, where he still lives. 
His seabirds fly. Their shapes speak of speed, their colours speak of sea and sky, of rugged cliffs and secret coves. And when air and light cross their wings those landscapes vanish giving way to pure emotions.


Glass has many shapes and many uses. 

Photos:
TravelinaGarden, Venice, April 2016.
'The Venetian glass collection' engraving from

The Venetian glass collection.

The Chronological museum of the danish kings at Rosenberg Castle; a short description, by P. Brock, The Publishing Company of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 1892.
access: archive org


Exhibition:
Vetri Paralleli, 
Glass Cabinet Francesca Saccani
Uccelli/Birds Tróndur Patursson
09.04 - 29.04.2016
ARTLIFE for the World, Calle della Racchetta 3782/B Cannaregio, Venezia
http://www.artlifefortheworld.it

Links:
Francesca Saccani
http://francescasaccani.com/

Tróndur Patursson
http://www.trondurpatursson.dk/